Police Dog Stories

VKR…URGENT!!!

VKR…URGENT!!!

Dam, those words resonate over the police radio, no more than this night. I was working a late one this night, 8p-4a on a Friday night.  It’s usually a busy night, but this night was going to be a night I would never forget. The Friday night progressed as it was any other, the odd domestic, a few blews with the locals in Flinder’s street in Townsville. I was working with Andrew, his...

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VKR Urgent..Part 2

VKR Urgent..Part 2

AND THE SEARCH CONTINUES So, I go methodically  up to each car park, firearm drawn peering around each car park bay, under each car, looking, finger on the trigger, ready to fire….let me tell you…I’m ready to shoot. I even went through every refuse area, anywhere that we thought someone could be hiding. Now, can I say, this was one, if not the most adrenalin rushed situation I...

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A Chase, A Car On Fire…

A Chase, A Car On Fire…

It was a Sunday night, usually a quiet night in the week.  I was working a 4-12 shift after working all weekend. It was a 4am finish on Saturday morning then another 4am finish on Sunday morning then get some sleep in until you finish the weekend for a midnight finish.  You always hope for a quiet Sunday night without even after running around after drunken idiots, fights and domestics.  Dam...

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How It All Started

How It All Started

A Most Unlikely Candidate I was a young police officer in the Queensland Police Service performing general duties.  Just doing a bit of this and that.  I was currently in the police inquiries office executing warrants on people that had outstanding unpaid fines and delivering summons’s and what have you.  At that stage, I had 4 years experience as a police officer and was 21. The dog...

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